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Generating custom themes in Power BI – A designer's perspective
Explore custom Power BI themes and learn tips for styling reports, pushing beyond your comfort zone for enhanced data visualization.
Adventures in Dapr: Episode 1 - Azure Service Bus
Explore Dapr for migrating workloads to cloud services. Learn to enable PaaS Pub-Sub with Azure Service Bus using the Dapr Traffic Control sample app.
Adventures in Dapr: Episode 0 - Introduction
Explore Dapr's role in simplifying cloud migration using Azure services, based on the Dapr Traffic Control sample app.
Setting up multiple WSL distribution instances
This blog post explains how to set up multiple instances of a Linux distribution in the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
How C# 10.0 and .NET 6.0 improve ArgumentExceptions
C# 10.0's support for CallerArgumentExpression and some new helpers in .NET 6.0 make throwing argument exceptions more succinct and less error prone.
Flex Your DevSecOps Muscles With Bicep
Bicep provides a significant improvement in tooling for organisations seeking to deploy infrastructure as code on Microsoft Azure.
My first month-and-a-bit as an apprentice at endjin
Liam joined endjin as part of the Software Engineering Apprenticeship 2021 cohort. In this post he reflects on his first month and looks to the future.
My first month as an apprentice software engineer at endjin
As a Biology graduate, Jessica wasn't sure what to expect from a software engineering apprenticeship. Here's what the first month actually looked like; from shadowing client calls to writing C# and BDD Specs.
Month one at endjin
Nehemiah reflects on his month at endjin: joining the team, getting onboarded into the .NET and Azure tooling, and contributing to client projects.
My first month as an Apprentice Engineer
Eli joined endjin as part of the Software Engineering Apprenticeship 2021 cohort. In this post she reflects on her first month.
From start to finish: my internship at endjin
Thea studies Biomedical Engineering at King's College London, in this post she summarises her 6 week internship at endjin.
Charlotte's Internship Blog
Charlotte is going into her second year of Computer Science at the University of York. In this post she describes her summer internship.
Amy's summer as an intern endjineer
Amy is studying Biomedical Engineering University of Reading, and reflects on her two month summer internship at endjin learning C# and Python, and working on a data science project.
My internship experience
Klaudia studies Electronic Engineering at University of Southampton, and reflects on her two month internship.
C# 10.0 implicit global using directives
C# 10's new implicit global imports can make your code more communicative. This article shows how the magic works, and how you can control the feature.
A remedy for home working: build your own desk!
Customise your home office and make your home working experience more enjoyable and productive by building your own desk for less than £200 over a weekend.
Managing schemas in Azure Synapse SQL Serverless
Explore Azure Synapse's SQL Serverless for on-demand data lake queries, its benefits, and challenges in managing schemas and maintaining data sync.
A week in the life of a (graduate) endjineer
During our last few months of recruitment, one of the main questions that we were asked during this process is 'what does your average day look like'. The extremely varied work at endjin made this quite a tricky question to answer, so we expanded the question to be slightly broader - 'what does your average week look like?'
Intra-business comms with user stories, BDD & ubiquitous language
Endjin uses user stories, BDD specs, and a ubiquitous language to bridge the communication gap between stakeholders and tech teams.
Deploy a Vue app to Azure Static Web Apps using Azure DevOps & YAML
Deploy a VueJS app on Azure Static Web Apps using a YAML-defined Azure DevOps pipeline with Microsoft's hosting solution for static web applications.
New LinkedIn Learning Course AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Azure
Carmel has recently released an exam tips course on preparing for the AZ-204 exam: Developing solutions for Microsoft Azure! The course gives an overview of the syllabus, some tips on what you'll need to know for each section, and some examples of common question types.
Data is the new soil
Thinking of data as the new soil is useful in highlighting the key elements that enable a successful data and analytics initiative.
C# serialization with JsonSchema and System.Text.Json
Learn how code generation can build on System.Text.Json and JSON Schema to create a great experience for C# developers.
Azure Synapse SQL Serverless: connect Data Lake and Power BI
TL;DR - Using Azure Synapse SQL Serverless, you can query Azure Data Lake and populate Power BI reports across multiple workspaces.
How to test Azure Synapse notebooks
Explore data with Azure Synapse's interactive Spark notebooks, integrated with Pipelines & monitoring tools. Learn how to add tests for business rule validation.